Stephen Rees’s blog

The world’s top 10 most liveable cities

Posted in Urban Planning, silly by Stephen Rees on October 21st, 2007

International Herald Tribune

Part of a larger review - this is just the slide show. Nice pictures. Vancouver isn’t one of them.

8 random facts

Posted in silly by Stephen Rees on July 1st, 2007

I have to thank Paul Hillsdon for this tag

This is my first time participating in one of these tag games.

  • Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.
  • Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
  • Players should tag eight other people and notify them that they have been tagged.
  1.  I am a mongrel: my background includes a variety of different nationalities and cultures
  2.  As a result of 1, I always answer any question about my “race” as Human.
  3.  After years of doubt I have finally decided I am an atheist. This realization has been liberating.
  4.  I have type 2 diabetes
  5.  and osteoporosis - no, it is NOT just a condition of post-menopausal women
  6.  I have dual British and Canadian citizenship
  7.  I have four children from two [failed] marriages
  8.  I am seriously concerned that I am not going to find it easy to tag 8 more bloggers, and I apologize in advance to  those who will find this exercise pointless.

Paul wrote of his tags “3 teens, 2 urban design whizzes, 2 education whizzes, and 1 politico.”

I know I am not a teen or an education whizz - so now I wonder which of the remainder he puts me in.

I tag

  1. Bill McEwen
  2. Bill Tieleman
  3. David Pritchard
  4. Carmen Mills
  5. Jak King
  6. Richard Eriksson
  7. Keefer
  8. Sgt Turmeric